Show their deaths not in vain an eagles nest b befouled with the rera rem fc nants of dead thin things gs the relics of grim rings tor for the preservation of life and comfort is an unsightly and unsavory object still from its squalor emerges in du due e time the golden eagle most glorious and grandest on the wing of all the birds so from all the tragedies and sorrows of homes fortunes and battlefields recalled to mind on Mer memorial noria day is we trust to come the promise of a peace which is to soar far above all possible prospects of wars it adds to the thankfulness to bear in mind that those splendid ones whose steadfast valor and sturdy vigor won for us the victory we commemorate won also for us and the future a promise of a peace which we trust will never be ruptured by war they whose loss we recall by no means died in vain tince since they won the th victory for peace and the right could we but hear them from their places of re rest st they would doubtless boh b declaring in unanimous chorus that their dis comforts sufferings and deaths death all made up but a trifling price to pay for a peace which will assure to mankind an ending of all wars |